Welcome and introductions Venue: Chair: Paul Standish, Professor of Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, University of London
10.15 - 10.30 Welcome - Paul Smeyers, INPE President, Professor of Philosophy of Education, Ghent University and K.U.Leuven Introduction - Naoko Saito, Associate Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University and Convenor of the Site Committee, on behalf of Satoji Yano, Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University and Chair of the Site Committee Introduction - Yasushi Maruyama, Associate Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University and Treasurer of the Site Committee
10.30 - 10.40 Welcome - Manabu Sato, Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo and President of the Japanese Educational Research Association
10.40 – 11.00 Welcome - Cultivating a New Civility for the Human and Ecological Community of this Planet Toshio Yokoyama, Vice President of Kyoto University and Director-General of the Organisation for the Promotion of International Relations, Kyoto University
11.00 - 12.30 Keynote Paper Reclaiming the unconditional: thinking education in Japan. Tetsuya Takahashi, Professor of Philosophy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo Chair: Paul Standish
13.30 - 15.00 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: Encountering something beyond the ordinary in education: Western philosophy and the complexity of Japan. Mitsutoshi Takayanagi, Tatsuya Ishizaki, Hanako Ikeda, Yasuko Miyazaki and Yuji Furukawa Venue: Chair: Kanako Ide
2. Round Table: Possibilities of Wittgensteinian philosophy of education: in Japanese Context. Yasushi Maruyama, Yoshitsugo Hirata, Hirotaka Sugita, Kenichiro Yamagishi and Fukutaro Watanabe Venue: Chair: Shigeru Asanuma
3. Concurrent papers: What do we want them to do? Against intrinsic motivation. Alexander M. Sidorkin School engagement: a “Danse Macabre”? Shelby Sheppard Venue: Chair: Judith Suissa
4. Concurrent papers: When Dewey's Confucian admirer meets his liberal critic: Liang Shuming and Eamon Callan on John Dewey's democracy and education. Jessica Ching-Sze Wang Perfectionism, autonomy and pluralism: a pragmatic defence. Carlos Mougan Rivero Venue: Chair: Lynda Stone
5. Concurrent papers: Diversity and opportunism: how educational policies can emerge from local judgements. David Beckett Multicultural education: embeddedness, voice and change. Stefan Ramaekers Venue: Chair: John McLean
6. Working papers: Towards an education of emotions: thumos and the schooling of boys and girls. Amy Shuffelton Moral and emotional education. Lydia B. Amir The concept of 'evolutionary-ontological literacy'. Josef Šmajs and Emil Višňovský Venue: Chair: Doug Blomberg
7. Workshop: Aesthetic emotion by John Dewey. Hansjörg Hohr Impetus, imagination and shared experience in aesthetic communication. Cecilia Ferm and Ketil Thorgersen Retaining the unresolvable tension between fidelity and license: learning and understanding from that which exceeds ‘my time’. Mario Di Paolantonio Venue: Chair: Sharon Bailin
15.30 - 17.00 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: Pragmatism in the age of globalization. Cross-cultural applications for pragmatic methods. Larry Hickman, Giuseppe Spadafora and Emil Višňovský Venue: Chair/Translator: Naoko Saito and Nobuo Kazashi
2. Round Table: Three distinctive schools of philosophy of education in modern Korea: competing for indigenous educational theories. Duck-Joo Kwak, Gicheol Han, Sang Sup Kim and Byung Hyun Nah Venue: Chair: Liz Jackson
3. Concurrent papers: Philosophical aspects of multiculturalism in teacher education: the case of ACE. Shlomo Back and Ruth Mansur Why linguistic territorialism in the UK does not justify differential minority language rights. Shaun Gates Venue: Chair: Lesley Le Grange
4. Concurrent papers: Images of the educated person in the USA and Japan. David P. Ericson Homogeneity and diversity: comparing Japanese and American perspectives on harmony and disagreement. Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon Venue: Chair: Halvor Hoveid
5. Working papers: Philosophy of education for the 21st century- part II - the projects of Heidegger and Wittgenstein. Mickey Dwyer, Yasushi Maruyama and Haroldo Fontaine Initiation into human forms of life: difference, intention to communicate with the other and the practice standpoint. Kenny Huen Hans Skjervheim's solution to the problem of symmetry/asymmetry in a dialogue. Mikhail Gradovski Venue: Chair: Ruth Cigman
6. Working papers: Education beyond the pedagogical myth. The configuration of “the immigrant” read through Rancière’s views on political subjectification. Carl Anders Säfström Democracy and education. Pavel E. Sapegin and Lev Vertgeim Globalization and ethics in education. Miriam Rodrig-Farhi Venue: Chair: Barry Bull
7. Workshops: A problem: teaching to brain-based mind in the classroom. Baratali Monfaredi Raz The nature of the tutorial system and the philosophical question it raises. Chie Takekoshi Rethinking assessment in a multicultural world. Peter Beets Venue: Chair: Yusef Waghid
Sunday 10th August
09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: Traditions of education in East Asia and its encounter with modern educational thoughts. A special panel co-organized by the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University Zhongying Shi, Yong-Jin Hahn and Masashi Tsujimoto Venue: Chair: Morimichi Kato
2. Round Table: The idea of the future teacher in a multicultural world. Jan Bengtsson, Tobias Werler, Jorunn Midtsundstad, Ilmi Willberg Venue: Chair: David P. Ericson
3. Concurrent papers: East meets West in Japanese doctoral education: form, dependence and the strange. Luise Prior McCarty and Yoshitsugu Hirata E-ducating the gaze as invitation to go walking. Jan Masschelein Venue: Chair: Kathleen Knight-Abowitz
4. Concurrent papers: Group learning - myth or reality? Paul Hager Walter Benjamin's concept of experience: education without usefulness. Atsuko Tsuji Venue: Chair: Richard Smith
5. Concurrent papers: Living in the borderland of utility and sovereignty: from the theory of evil in G. Bataille. Yasuko Miyazaki A trans-actional approach to moral development. Matthew Pamental Venue: Chair: Alexander M. Sidorkin
6. Working papers: Conceptions of teaching and learning - philosophy East and West. Hunter McEwan, Liuxin Yang and Di Xu Philosophy and methodology on mathematics education in Japan: interviews with the board of education. John McLean Changing educational practices in a dynamic society: challenges faced by the Qatar University reform project. Laura A. DeSisto and Joy S. Moini Venue: Chair: Mario De Paolantonio
7. Workshops: Islamic headscarves and the violation of the right of children to freedom of religion in schools. Zdenko Kodelja The notion of ‘respect’ in multicultural learning/teaching environments. Lesley Le Grange Disseminating dissent: cultivating civic criticality in schools. Sarah Stitzlein Venue: Chair: John Colbeck
11.00 - 12.30 Keynote Paper Teaching religion in a global culture. Larry Hickman Venue: Chair: Penny Enslin
13.30 - 15.00 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: Teaching professional ethics in teacher education: problems and solutions. Yasushi Maruyama, Barry Bull, Mark Freakley and Richard Smith Venue: Chair: Peter Beets
2. Round Table: East-West comparisons in pragmatism. Steven Fesmire, Jim Garrison, Chae Young Kim Venue: Chair/Translator Junichi Murata and Ito Kunitake
3. Concurrent papers: Globalisation and the import of critical pedagogy. Chia-Ling Wang Educating beyond consensus: facing cross-cultural conflict as radical democratic possibility. Sharon Todd Venue: Chair: Marjorie O'Loughlin
4. Concurrent papers: Beyond monolingualism: philosophy as translation and the understanding of other cultures. Naoko Saito Translation, transformation and the idea of the redesigned. Amanda Fulford Venue: Chair: Lydia Amir
5. Working papers: Fostering awareness of connectedness in spiritual health education. Manami Ozaki, Yoshihiro Hayashi and Yamamoto Kayoko A variety of spiritual education. Inna Semetsky Professional ethics education for schoolteachers based on case methods in Japan. Tetsu Ueno Venue: Chair: Shaun Gates
6. Working papers: Mullah Sadra's idea about "existence" and "motion in substance" and its educational implications. Tahereh Javidi Imagining the Muslim identity: case study of a madrassah in Singapore. Charlene Tan Islam and the West: or, how to know one another in an authentic way? Sefyi Kenan Venue: Chair: Hunter McEwan
7. Workshops: Re-beginning education of mourning teachers: Emerson’s grieving and a Japanese film Maborosi. Mitsutoshi Takayanagi “Is it me or another who is speaking?” Multicultural education as experiencing the other. Nancy Vansieleghem Between strangers and human rights: education as cosmopolitan advocacy towards understanding as disagreement. Amrita Zahir Venue: Chair: Amy Shuffelton
15.30 - 17.00 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: Lost in translation? Education in a globalised world of change. Ylva Boman, Tone Kvernbekk, Moira von Wright and Torill Strand Venue: Chair: Isabelle Sabau
2. Concurrent papers: Educational research, governmentality and the construction of the cosmopolitan citizen. Naomi Hodgson The epistemological turn: the tropological uses of “ways of knowing”. Claudia Ruitenberg Venue: Chair: Carl Anders Säfström
3. Concurrent papers: Beyond the boundaries: critical thinking and differing cultural perspectives. Sharon Bailin The zen koan as a tool for western art education: how can we teach our students to kill the Buddha? Matthew Pelowski Venue: Chair: James S. Johnston
4. Concurrent papers: Complexities of belonging in democratic/democratizing societies: Islamic identity, ethnicity and citizenship in the Netherlands and Aceh. Jeffrey A. Milligan Education, madrassahs and the (im)possibility of radicalism. Yusef Waghid Venue: Chair: Jan Masschelein
5. Working papers: Islamism: "a perceived threat or solution for universalism?" Ahmad Shafi Maqsood and Haque Faatin Comparative philosophy of education as innovative methodology. Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast and Mohammad Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast Global and regional aspects of education development. Nina Nalivaiko Venue: Chair: David Beckett
6. Working papers: The symbolic exchange of the curriculum discourse in Japan. Shigeru Asanuma The conundrum of multicultural education in Korea. Dong Kwang Kim The cosmopolitan experience of bilingual speakers of Korean and English. Eun-Yong Kim Venue: Chair: Phillip Higgs
7. Workshops: Islam and western culture at a crossroad. Carmine Ferrone The issue of tradition in the debate over patriotic education in Japan. Kanako Ide Examination of 'subjectivity' in education: the case of China. Xia Li Venue: Chair: Kai Horsthemke
Monday 11th August
09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: Educational thoughts in the Kyoto school of philosophy: towards an East-West dialogue. A special panel co-organized by the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University Tsunemi Tanaka, Takuo Nishimura, Shoko Suzuki and Paul Standish Venue: Chair: Tadashi Nishihira
2. Concurrent papers: Breaking nationalism's stronghold: educational justice in shifting contexts. Kathleen Knight Abowitz Multiculturalism as nation-building. Liz Jackson Venue: Chair: Sharon Todd
3. Concurrent papers: Rethinking humane education. Kai Horsthemke Reconciling forms of Asian humility with assessment practices and character education programs in North America. Jeff Stickney Venue: Chair: Andrés Mejía
4. Working papers: Comparative philosophy of education as innovative methodology. Oksana Mikhalina Towards multicultural understanding in education: a pluralistic problem-centred approach to philosophy of education. Phillip Higgs and Leonie Higgs Interpersonal and intercultural understanding in early childhood education. Hiroe Terada Venue: Chair: Luise Prior McCarty
5. Working papers: Creating moral persons: the meaning of the Confucian idea of gentleman to moral education. Jin Shenghong Tricky triad: Confucianism, democracy, and global education movement. Huey-Li Li Venue: Chair: James Marshall
6. Workshops: Before/beyond democracy: multicultural education and the politics of recognition revisited. Cathrine Ryther Revisiting the problems of culture, religion and women’s rights: some issues for education. Marjorie O'Loughlin Discourses on institutional culture in Higher Education in South Africa. Berte van Wyk Venue: Chair: Marit Hoveid
7. Workshops: The relation between the universal and the particular - an educational problem? Bernt Gustavsson An approach to the educational intersections between philosophy and literature. Karina Kleiman Authority in educational practices in Watsi community in Togo today: tensions or crisis? Nassira Hedjerassi and Benoît Hodanou Venue: Chair: Stefan Ramaekers
11.00 - 12.30 Business Meeting Venue: Chair: Paul Smeyers
Afternoon Cultural event/sightseeing
Tuesday 12th August
09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions
1. Round Table: (Re)turning to the breath: ethical turns and Eastern philosophies. Heesoon Bai, Avraham Cohen, Claudia Eppert, Robert Hattam and Daniel Vokey Venue: Chair: Shelby Sheppard
2. Concurrent papers: How comprehensive is your conception of the good? Liberal parents, difference, and multicultural education. Judith Suissa Policy implications of social justice in education. Barry Bull Venue: Chair: Duck-Joo Kwak
3. Concurrent papers: Multiple intelligences, judgment, and the realization of value. Doug Blomberg Some problems with the measurement of self-esteem. Ruth Cigman Venue: Chair: Matthew Pamental
4. Working papers: Teaching children philosophy – is thoroughly critical thinking possible? Beatrice Dike and John Colbeck Re-specifying critical thinking, for assessment: results of an exploration into the notion of assumption. Andrés Mejía New pedagogy for online learning. Isabelle Sabau Venue: Chair: Tone Kvernbekk
5. Working papers: Multiculture, identity and education in Korea. Jeong-Bong Cho On learning tolerant and pluralist attitudes. Herzl Baruch Venue: Chair: Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
6. Workshops: Does affirmative action in education contribute to social justice? The reservation system in India's education. Yuki Ohara Pedagogy, thought and atrocity: schooling in contexts of extreme poverty in Argentina. Silvia Grinberg Consensus, conflict, and being. Silvia Edling Venue: Chair: Paul Hager
7. Workshops: Identity in additional language contexts: a philosophical investigation. James S. Johnston and Xuemei Li How to use language: examining Wittgenstein’s rule following considerations. Yoshitsugu Hirata Understanding the other’s teaching and learning as a model for creating multicultural understanding in education. Halvor Hoveid and Marit H. Hoveid Venue: Chair: Claudia Ruitenberg
12th August 11.00 - 12.30 Keynote Paper: The McLaughlin Lecture Education and the possibility of outsider understanding. David Bridges Venue: Chair: Paul Smeyers